Neighborhoods

Fun Fact:  In its 2020 list of best places to live, the ranking website, Niche, named Brookline as the best place to live in…

Fun Fact: Until the 1890s, ice houses lined the shore of Jamaica Pond and ice was harvested and sold in the winter by the Jamaica Plain Ice…

Fun Fact: Fig Newtons were named after the city.

Fun Fact: Prior to the rise of shopping malls in the 1970s, Roslindale Square, the Roslindale business district, was a major shopping center for…

Fun Fact: Much of the South End was originally marshlands in Boston's South Bay. To relieve overcrowding in downtown and the Back Bay, the marshlands…

Fun Fact: The Theodore Parker Church on Centre Street, features seven stained glass windows made by the Tiffany Studios between 1894 and 1927.